The Island Princess by Enma D E N Southworth
Noted early work by Enma D E N Southworth features royalty and romance. The tale follows a princess navigating social expectations and peril while seeking identity and love.
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Newspaper
Bristol Phenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1857
Page
1
Noted early work by Enma D E N Southworth features royalty and romance. The tale follows a princess navigating social expectations and peril while seeking identity and love.
Estelle Morelle at Hyde Hall resists Lord Montressor’s marriage proposal amid secret sorrow. She confesses that she is unworthy and has concealed a past love, risking scandal at the church. The scene reveals her inner turmoil before a May wedding that may never occur.
A wealth plea contrasts riches earned by fair means with wealth gained by unfair practices. It urges generous acts, cheerful conduct, and usefulness over greed, arguing that true happiness comes from ethically earned wealth and aiding others. The column closes with a World Illustrated note on Wat Eckman’s dramatic near death and revival.
The Boston Post relays a tale of the reigning belle at Napoleon III's court who spends evenings alone with her fan and breaks it at each ball, gifting fragments to admirers. Fragments from her Casiglione style fans circulate through Paris, regarded as sacred relics by loyal possessors.
A resolve passes for state printing work to J S Potter with rates of grarty cents per thousand ems and sixty cents per token. The prior resolve was left to the Secretary of the State Treasurer Auditor and two clerks to set fair rates for upcoming contracts.
A fragmentary 18th century relic reports that a buried Spanish gold and silver hoard, thought connected to Blackbeard lore, was unearthed four feet deep after a branch with coins attracted attention during plowing near Means farm. Oxen hauled the hoard to Mr D3’s house for display. locals doubt the tale is a hoax.
Nighttime heavy rain caused widespread darkness and travel disruption in Mobile. Gas works flooded and deranged postponing theatre, delaying newspapers printed by candlelight. Bridges washed out, gutters strewn with debris, and a man drowned crossing near the gas works as the railroad tracks submerged and rails loosened.
A Liverpool paper reports Mrs Casey of Wigan aged twenty nine is mother of twelve and grandmother of two after eleven more children since her fourteenth year. She and husband Patrick Casey a forty year old tailor reside in Douglasto fade Wigan.
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